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Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-century Physics

By Johnson, George

Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography and a British El Dorado

By Burnett, D. Graham

The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny

By Ekeland, Ivar

The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History

By Freedberg, David

Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene (Science.Culture)

By Sepkoski, David

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution

By Dugatkin, Lee Alan

The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

By Kuhn, Thomas S.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

By Thomas S Kuhn

The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War

By Geroulanos, Stefanos, Meyers, Todd

Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britai - Constructing Scientific Communities

By Dawson, Gowan, Ligthman, Bernard, Shuttleworth, Sally, Topham, Jonathan

Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome

By de Chadarevian, Soraya

The Chemical Age – How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth

By Von Hippel, Frank A.

A Short History of Scientific Thought

By Henry, John

The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800

By Armitage, David, Braddick, Michael

Burrhus F. Skinner: The Shaping of Behaviour (Mind Shapers)

By Toates, Frederick

Women's Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry Into Cervical Cancer (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History)

By Bryder, Linda

Medicine and Empire: 1600-1960

By Chakrabarti, Pratik

Issues, Debates and Approaches in Psychology (Macmillan Insights in Psychology series)

By Ian Fairholm

Charles Darwin: The Shaping of Evolutionary Thinking (Mind Shapers)

By Workman, Lance

Stanley Milgram: Understanding Obedience and its Implications (Mind Shapers)

By Lunt, Peter

The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science (Studies in European History)

By Henry, John

The Cave Bear Story: Life and Death of a Vanished Animal (Linguistics, and Culture; Literary)

By Kurtén, Bjorn

Einstein: The Life of a Genius (Treasures and Experiences Series)

By Walter Isaacson

The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Botanical Explorers

By Fry, Carolyn

Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest For the Elements

By Strathern, Paul

The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

By Strevens, Michael

Big History: Our Incredible Journey, from Big Bang to Now (Dk)

By DK, Christian, David

Books That Changed History: From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary (Dk)

By DK, Naughtie, James

How to Be Human: The Manual

By Wax, Ruby

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By Wilczek, Frank